Opera, based in Norway, announced Thursday that it had filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission, alleging that Microsoft is abusing its dominant position by bundling IE with the Windows operating system. Opera also claimed that Microsoft is hindering interoperability by not following accepted open Web standards. Microsoft struck back Friday, indicating that it would not willingly unbundle IE from Windows. "We believe the inclusion of the browser into the operating system benefits consumers, and that consumers and PC manufacturers are already free to choose to use any browsers they wish," a Microsoft representative said. "Internet Explorer has been an integral part of the Windows operating system for over a decade and supports a wide range of Web standards."

So, basically, a browser would come with the os. Sort of like now, only instead of ms picking the browser, an oem does it. How's that any better?

Or is every browser in the world going to be installed? So that no one thinks their browser is being side-stepped? What if I don't want my oem's choice of browser? Are they going to ask people to select from a list? I guess then we'd see how many people care about browsers by how man opt for ie. I doubt many people would bother picking anything else.